For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- KJV For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
- NKJV For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;
- NASB For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it by your foot like a vegetable garden.
- NLT For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.
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Quick answer
Canaan is unlike Egypt, where crops were watered by labor as in a vegetable garden. The promised land would not depend on human irrigation.
Overview
Moses contrasts Egypt's irrigation, requiring constant human effort, with Canaan's different character. In Egypt, water was drawn and channeled by foot from the Nile. The contrast sets up the truth that life in the land depends directly on God's provision, a dependence ultimately satisfied in Christ.
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- Zech 14:18And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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